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Poster:	tkemmer	Date:	Nov 7, 2014 7:07am
Forum:	audio	Subject:	Re: Multiple derived VBR MP3 files (JSON API)

Thanks for your quick reply. So, if I understand you correctly, in the future there *will* exist multiple files with the same format (i.e. "VBR MP3" or "64Kbps MP3") for the same track, at least for older items?

And, as a rule of thumb, would you suggest for players that want to stream audio files in MP3 format to choose the file named [filename].mp3, basically ignoring the "format" meta data?

Kind Regards,
Thomas

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Poster:	Jeff Kaplan	Date:	Nov 7, 2014 8:46am
Forum:	audio	Subject:	Re: Multiple derived VBR MP3 files (JSON API)

yes there will be multiple files that are some flavor of mp3 if they already exist and in the case of a few collections like Librivox which have a unique derive path to create lower bitrate formats in addition to higher rate vbr mp3 files.

i would recommend [filename].mp3 as the mp3 choice in general. there may be some corner cases where uploaders have created their own mp3 files in which case the system will not derive a new one. we can't know if those mp3s are web/player friendly.

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Poster:	tkemmer	Date:	Nov 7, 2014 9:36am
Forum:	audio	Subject:	Re: Multiple derived VBR MP3 files (JSON API)

Well, thanks for the clarification. I'll have to think about how to handle this in my client, though, so I may come up with additional questions in the next couple of days...

Kind Regards, and thanks for your efforts,
Thomas